Dictionary definition: Amadeus Quartet

Article: Norbert Brainin, violinist who founded Amadeus ...
AP Worldstream;  May 10, 2005 ;     457 words ... ... Brainin, the violinist who founded the Amadeus Quartet, has died. He was 82. Brainin died ... Quartet, later to be known as the Amadeus Quartet, with cellist Martin Lovett. The ... recordings. Brainin, who led the Amadeus Quartet in the tradition of quartets from ...

Article: Amadeus Quartet: The Cologne Years: Haydn Op. 74/1. ...
Strings;  May 1, 2006 ;     523 words ...Amadeus Quartet: The Cologne Years: Haydn Op. 74/1. Mozart K. 515, with Cecil ... the Prague Spring Festival betweerij 1947 and 1968, and this new Amadeus Quartet set. Although the Amadeus was one of the most frequently recorded ...

Article: Violinist freed from wartime internment camp became member of ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 27, 2008 ;     607 words ...Siegmund Nissel, the second violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, an internationally renowned ensemble that had its ... years without a single change of personnel. As the Amadeus Quartet, the ensemble made its debut in London in 1948 ...

Article: Violinist with Amadeus Quartet dies at 86
AP Online;  May 23, 2008 ;     637 words ...Siegmund Nissel, a violinist who fled his native Germany as a child to escape Nazi persecution of Jews and later helped found the Amadeus String Quartet, has died at age 86. Nissel died Wednesday at his home in London, his daughter Claire Nissel said. She didn't disclose a cause of death. Nissel,

Article: Haydn: String Quartets Op.76, 77, 103
Strings;  January 1, 2003 ;     473 words ... ... String Quartets Op. 76, 77, 103. Amadeus Quartet: Norbert Brainin and Sigmund Nissel, violins; Peter Schidlof, viola; Martin ... identified with the "Viennese" classics: the Amadeus Quartet. Formed in London in 1948 by three Austrians ...

Article: The Listener: Welcome that turned sour Behind the Wire BBC Radio ...
The Independent - London;  October 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... He played part of a Bach concerto. DC Schidlof and Brainin - together with fellow internee Sigmund Nissel - later founded the Amadeus Quartet. For the younger internees, the experience had its bright side. Edith Holden from Vienna was ...

Article: Arts: CLASSICAL - Great Britten BRITTEN 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT ...
The Independent - London;  December 15, 2001 ;     585 words ... ... another interval, after which one would have happily listened to the violinist Sigmund Nissel's reminiscences to the young composer Julian Philips of the Amadeus Quartet's involvements with Britten at length, had time allowed it. Yet while ...